“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.” IfsMenWayLoveFeelsHas BeensStoriesThreeLove IsWifeConditionsMastersFoolKingsMarriedLet MeMadnessFortyWarningTemperDeliciousThree TimesWisestMarried LifeBeen In LoveSolomonPretty Woman Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.” TryingMindRealMightDesireLove IsReturnLoversMadnessGenuineElsewhereGoddessPrescriptionsVenusGazingIllusorySexual DesireFonts Author:Paul Ludwig Landsberg
“Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under” Love IsMadnessDose Author:Ville Valo
“Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.” PeopleFeelsShouldHumansKindHas BeensStatesRealityFormSufferingPassionHuman BeingsLove IsKnownRightsMadnessFellowsMadGladLustFlamesHeatRemarkableSlipsNeverthelessBeing In LoveDistortionSufferersLunacy Author:Julian Fellowes
“Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful stories -- and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now in our hands.” KindStoriesHandsRunningBeautifulImaginationLove IsBrainCrazyRight NowLuckyPagesAnd LoveMadnessAll KindsCrowdedStrangenessWildnessCrazy LoveLeslieAwfulness Author:Molly Gloss
“Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.” MeanLove IsMadnessHorribleSickness Author:Florence Welch